The tale of the boy who stood up to change the world, and the half-brother who wanted to stand at his side, but if he couldn’t have that, let him have everything else.

The tale of the Genius and the Shepherd as they were known by some, the Madman and the Traitor by others, but who were they in each other’s eyes?

The tale of Fëanor and Fingolfin.

“I refuse to accept the Noldor are bound to the starless midnight of these petty lives the Valar have boxed us into. I refuse to accept we will never walk through these shadows and into the bright daybreak of freedom!” –Fëanor in The Revolutionary and the Usurper

Melpomaen is a reborn elfling. He has two fathers because Saruman cursed one of them to fall pregnant to the next elf they saw - that unfortunate elf was Legolas. Mel was born with all his father, Erestor's, memories and intelligence and causes mayhem wherever he goes. He is probably the cutest, naughtiest and baddest elfling anywhere and yet he steadfastly refuses to believe he is anything but well behaved. Erestor is the only elf to have ever suffered a migraine; he hopes they will go when Mel is fifty and leaves home.
Wherever Mel goes there is uproar. Things become worse when he finds out that the Valar have already assigned him a soul mate and that a new baby brother is on the way, who is also reborn. Who are Mel's first set of parents and why does Saruman want to capture him. How did Mel manage to stab the wizard in the eye with an arrow and why is Sauron so interested in him? Also, why have the Valar assigned Gandalf to be his guide?
The story follows Mel through his, not always easy, childhood until he becomes an adult, finding out about his true origins on the way. Will he choose to be good or will he embrace evil? It could go either way.

Summary: To avoid the scandal that is still following Rumil in Lothlorien, he is sent on a mission to Mirkwood. He must negotiate with the elven king, and convince him that the Wood elves are needed in this time of crisis. It's an impossible task, until he finds an ally in Legolas ... and something more.Category:FictionCharacters:Haldir, Legolas, OMC, Orophin, Rúmil, ThranduilContent: Action/Adventure, Explicit Sex, Romance, SlashChallenge: NoneSeries: NoneChapters: 23 | Completed: No | Word count: 182234 | Read count: 9878

Returnverse. Tindómë and Haldir have returned from The Valinor Trail, Legolas is reunited with his mother and now there is a time of pause before setting off to see these lands the Valar had always meant for the Silvan and Sindarin elves...

Ereolas is the reborn King Oropher. He is one hundred years old and is married to Cirdan. They live in Mithlond. He has decided to write his memoirs of when he was King of the Greenwood and also record the details of his life in Mithlond in anecdotal, diary form.

To familiarise yourself with the characters you could read Melpomaen the Elfling first, but it is not necessary.

Here is a brief synopsis of the events leading up to this story:

Melpomaen and Ereolas are Erestor and Legolas’ elflings. Ereolas is King Oropher reborn and so Legolas actually gave birth to his grand ada in the form of a small baby. Ereolas is able to speak, read, write, be a pain in the ass, as soon as he is born. Shortly after his birth, he demands his old throne back. His parents and the Valar, who prefer Thranduil as king, resist him. Ereolas accepts, in the end, that he will never be a king again and adopts a new hobby: researching and imposing the rules of etiquette. He terrorises everyone with etiquette.

Summary: This is Book II of my LOTR series Faded Light.
The story mostly takes place about a hundred years of so before the War of the Ring. There are two main settings in Books I and II, Mirkwood and Far Harad, where Legolas has been living as a slave courtesan for many years. Everyone in Mirkwood believes he was killed years ago when as a young warrior his patrol was ambushed and massacred by Men. He was taken south as a slave and sold to a cruel whoremaster. In Book I, he is mute as a result of everything he has gone through and becomes known to the Haradrim as Dafi, which means mute one. After a war in Harad, he and the daughter he has while a slave are bought by Javad, the King of Far Harad.

Meanwhile, in Mirkwood, Thranduil has been slowly fading out of grief over losing his son, but Elrond has managed to keep him alive.

And Legolas’ cousin, Leralonde, who is now Thranduil’s heir, has been having a secret affair with Saelbeth, one of the court advisors. He and Saelbeth have kept the relationship secret for years because they know Leralonde’s father, Ruthlagor, would react really (really) badly to knowing his son is in love with a male Elf.

Saelbeth gets pregnant much to his and Leralonde’s surprise. They know that if it is a boy, the child would be in line to the throne of Mirkwood, so they won’t be able to keep their secret much longer. But while traveling to Rivendell, Saelbeth’s escort falls into an Orc ambush. He survives, barely, and Leralonde rushes to Rivendell to be with him and their unborn child. (End of Book I.)

Book II picks up several years later, Legolas and his daughter, Mel, have been living under the protection of the Haradrim King, and Legolas has become the King’s favorite courtesan and been drawn into the intrigues of Menah, chief priest of Sauron’s temple in Far Harad.

Also, Legolas' adopted older brother, Feredir, who was mentioned several times in Book I is finally introduced here. He has been away from Mirkwood for years, looking for any trace of Legolas, which he has so far not found.

Summary: Haldir gets mortally wounded while out chasing orc's but luckily a healer and her mate comes along and manages to save him. But it soon turns out that the ellon has some problems of a more intimate type that needs to be sorted out, and both are very skilled at that exact kind of healing. Smut, you are warned. Some slash. Haldir/OFC/OMC/ Orophin/Rumil. Just written for the heck of it.Category:FictionCharacters:Haldir, OFC, OMC, Orophin, RúmilContent: AU, Explicit Sex, Het, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, SlashChallenge: NoneSeries: NoneChapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 11463 | Read count: 950

Summary: Rumil has always known he would be a soldier. Even with strict army rules, he made the choice long ago to sacrifice certain aspects of his personal life in order to fulfill his duties to his family, his people, and his realm. Threatened with exposure, he'll do what he must to save his family name and his lover's reputation.Category:FictionCharacters:Haldir, OMC, Orophin, RúmilContent: Mystery, Romance, SlashChallenge: NoneSeries: NoneChapters: 10 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 82174 | Read count: 5331

Summary: LOTR x TRUEBLOOD Southern Vampire Mysteries A/U CROSSOVER. Lord Elrond never suspected what he was getting the elves into when they stepped from the shadows in defense of his long-lost brother Niall - but saving one life leads to the loss of others, dragging two innocent humans down a road of lies and deceit that will ultimately force them to face the most difficult decision of all - to choose between two worlds and the two men they love . . . or to stay alive for all eternity.Category:FictionCharacters:Elrond, Gandalf, Glorfindel, Haldir, OFC, Orophin, RúmilContent: Action/Adventure, AU, Character Death, Crossover, Explicit Sex, Het, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Rape/Non-con, RomanceChallenge: NoneSeries: NoneChapters: 1 | Completed: No | Word count: 8598 | Read count: 3263

Summary: Set during the last chapters of Dust. Rumil is sorting out his pictures; what to take West, and what not to...Category:FictionCharacters:Arwen, OFC, RúmilContent: Erotica, VignetteChallenge: NoneSeries:The Returnverse Stories.Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 944 | Read count: 1876

Summary: Returnverse story. Haldirin visits the now deserted Lothlorien with Rumil and Orophin - and finds it is not as deserted as he had been told... Set 4 or 5 years after 'The Man in Black' and 'The Right Kind of Shield'.Category:FictionCharacters:OFC, OMC, Orophin, RúmilContent: DramaChallenge: NoneSeries:The Returnverse Stories.Chapters: 1 | Completed: Yes | Word count: 3522 | Read count: 1658

Something very strange is happening in Éowyn's garden. Could Tindómë, or Haldirin, be the key to the mystery?In the heat of the Ithilien summer Éowyn is finding life quiet with her own family all away from home. But things are not really quite as calm and tranquil as she thinks they are. Nor, necessarily, quite so warm and summery. A Returnverse story originally written as a Plot Without Porn challenge on Live Journal, and inspired by a photo which you will find in the first chapter.

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